Bobby Moynihan
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Yes, I have actually stayed at Airbnbs from time to time. And truth be told, I do really like them. I'm being totally honest right now that I've had great experiences with them. Yeah. I mean, you can have your look at you go get your own place, get your own pool, your own living room. You're not going to walk in an elevator. You're not going to see people when you're walking around in your undergarments. Yeah.

Yes. And if you don't understand what we're talking about, you should go online. What we're saying is you have a house with a kitchen and a bathroom and it's just for you, tailored for you. You liked your Airbnb over a hotel. Yes. And I do think I've had relatives stay nearby and sometimes it's very nice for them to do an Airbnb and have a little house and they're not underfoot. The last thing you want is your house guest to say, excuse me, um,

Where would I find a towel? That's a toughie when it's because they're naked. Well, it's like the 1800 time you say on the towel rack. Yeah. Thank you. I was going to look there. People don't even think hotels sometimes just go, hey, I'll go there. I'll get an Airbnb. So you won't regret it.

David, so what have you been up to? You've been out recently. What's been going on? You've been kind of busy lately. What's going on? Well, I had a bit of a schnoz sitch. My nose is perfect, but I had to go in there and get it worked on because they said I had something wrong with it. So on the inside.

Do they go through your nostril or they don't? Yeah, they go through, they went through my butt. They go, we're going to take the long way. When did we get to the fun part? No, they go, they go through there and then, uh, are you knocked out at this point? Three hours. Okay. It's not a technically a nose job, but everyone thinks it is. Cause I go, my nose is broken in two places. They go, got it. Nose job. But it's not, it was just,

They had to fix something internally. It doesn't even help me, even though I brought in a picture of Margot Robbie. And they go, what are you bringing that? I go, just in case, if you want to make it look like that while I'm under. So I go under, but the funny part was, Dana, and this is hysterical. You already look like Margot Robbie. Like a brother or something from another mother or something. His hair is getting long. I know, that's why. It's called a hat when your hair goes bad. So I went in and what I found out is,

you know, we'd been talking about it for so long. So now my phone, I get all these ads because your phone listens. So like I get an ad for nose spray. I get an ad for breathing strips. I get ads for, uh, Vicodin addiction rehab centers. It's just Bobby Moynihan. He's a very, very down to earth guy. Fun dude to talk to. We had a great, we, we were, we immediately opened with talking about, uh,

What is one where they're on the elevator? Pumpkins, Mr. Pumpkins? With Tom Hanks, this crazy elevator guy. David S. Pumpkins. David S. Pumpkins. So funny. One of the weirdest, funniest cult sketches ever. And Tom came back and did it and did it as a cameo.

hysterical. Also does the single ladies, Beyonce. Single ladies is a beautiful piece of physical comedy with Beyonce and Bobby Moynihan commits whatever he's doing. Funny as hell. Drunk, drunk uncle. Another, another smash hit. Right. Just saw him get laughs in this Gordon, Joseph Gordon. Love it. Come on. Look. So whatever he does, he's getting laughs out there. Great guy to talk to. We had a good chat.

And we'll let you get to it. And just to reiterate this podcast, we hear another very fascinating circuitous route to getting on Saturday Night Live and then becoming a star of Saturday Night Live. So this, ladies and gentlemen, is Mr. Bobby Moynihan. I didn't even get a last word. I just said. You're good silent. I know. Sometimes it's good because when I hear it later, I go, please shut up.

Well, that's all I scream at the podcast. Shut your fucking face. That's all I think. But you at least have a cool voice. I got a weird. No, you got a good one. Oh, also, before we go to Bobby on our great interview, well, the interview, he was great. I mispronounce Mikey because I did a TV show with Mickey Rooney years ago. Nathan Lane, one of the boys who could look it up.

I kept saying Mickey instead of Mikey. So I apologize and just know that it was a mistake. And I kept calling him George Siegel.

But that was his real name. That's his stage name. That's his stage name, so that's not a mistake. So we apologize, but it's not a big deal, and who cares? Yeah, Mikey Day is a great comedian on Saturday Night Live. I called him Mickey Day, referred to him as Mickey Day over and over again. But instead of doing scissor editing, we left it in, and now I'm making this apology slash FYI. Listen, um...

David. David. God damn it. That's it. I've been calling you Damon. My wife says, how'd the podcast go? Damon was really funny. I think it's David. No, Mike Day's great. Bobby, what's his name, is great. This is a good one. It really is Daniel Spade. Look, the name was wrong. The interview was great. I would take a listen. I enjoyed it. David? David.

Yeah, it's almost over, but here it is. Well, this is kind of interesting because we have Bobby Moynihan on, and over the weekend, this is an evergreen show, but over the weekend, he crushed on Saturday Night Live, which is Drunk Uncle, Maybe Your Best One. I don't know, but it was...

What I thought of when I saw that, I said, this guy, because when I would go back and guest house, I'd be rusty and a little nervous. But I guess you you did go back in 2020 and do Drunk Uncle, but you were so loose. So in the pocket, I don't know if I did. Yeah, I felt very lucky that I did it right before I did this podcast.

Cause you know, it would crush. We're going to get huge numbers. I was, I didn't, I didn't know, but I was, I was excited. It was, it was very nice to go back and just go, Oh, I'm just going to go have a good time.

I'm just going to go. I'm not going to worry. I'm just going to go. I'm not going to panic. I'm just going to go have fun. I think the easiest, funnest thing to do is go back, not host and just go score on something and get all this excitement and then leave. And it's not so 100%. It also doesn't hurt to have Tom Hanks next year to go like, and also there, there you go. Just in case.

You've got a good backup singer, Tom Hanks. Yeah, exactly. And Jeff Probst. One of the... Yeah, that's right. Oh, yes. Nothing Tom Hanks can't do. And he's just, he's like, he's so enthusiastic about comedy. He would just bounce off the walls when he used to host. So I guess let's talk for a minute about this sketch, David S. Pumpkin's.

which is kind of getting a cult following. I think this sec, was that just the second time you did it in 2013? I looked it up and it floored me. I, you know, and then you, you just did it. So talk to that sketch a little bit.

We did it once and then like very, very quickly and maybe too quickly did an animated Christmas special. I mean, an animated Halloween special and then with Tom and then didn't do it. Didn't do it again for many, many years and then just came back and did it now after five or six. How did it come about to be right now when you're not hosting and Tom isn't hosting? I think I'll be completely honest. I think Rita is.

Rita Wilson had some singing engagements in town and Tom had a free Saturday. Tom had a free Saturday and was like, it's Halloween. Let's do David. You know what that means? Yeah. I got a text on Monday saying, are you available? And then didn't hear anything and got flight information on Thursday. And I was like, I guess it's happening. Oh, who reaches out to Tom, you or the show or Lauren? I believe Tom reached out to Lauren and was like, I'm in town if you need me.

Oh, I was like, here's my favorite for the year or, you know, and that's it. And then they, yeah.

Yeah. But I think, I also think Tom loves doing it. Like he was there all day Saturday. That's so Tom. Yeah. So just for a second, I'm sure David's curious too. It's just like the origin of that. It's a little like it was you and Mickey day and wrote it kind of, and then you pitched it to Tom and 20 Mikey. Right. Yeah. We were, it was one of those, it's,

it was one of those dumb five o'clock in the morning like what's the halloween show we we want to have something that comes back every year and we were talking about how there's no santa claus for halloween and like but we also had a completely different idea about like being these weird it was do you remember that video there was like a video going around like a viral video of uh

It's like a guy, an Indian guy would press the button on a stereo and he would just start dancing and then the other guys would press stop and he would stop dancing. It was just this weird video and we were talking about that and we kind of were writing two different sketches at the same time and it wasn't getting anywhere.

as it is in retelling as well. And, uh, it was one of those nights that happens at writer nights. That happens a lot. Yeah. 5. Yeah. Yeah. And then like, we kind of settled on just like a funny ideas that like, nobody knows what David pumpkins is like kind of what didn't,

Really? And then by the time it got to dress, by the time it got to dress, we were like, we have no idea what we have here. And then Tom Hanks was just like, I think I'm just going to be as weird as possible.

And it just kind of found itself on air. Well, but I was I was read through. Did you do read through with Tom with that? Yeah. Read through was it was great. It had the kind of like the same thing of just like what? Like, we don't know what this is, but it was funny. And it's going through for now. Did you get up or did you stay in your seat? We got up and did the dances. Yeah. And I think so, did he? And I think that's what sold. It was just like him not knowing what to do with it.

And his enthusiasm. When the elevator door opens, watching it as a fan and the dances that you and Mickey did were so specific in the first one, you're like shaking your face and rolling. And then Tom in the middle, I mean, just as a composition, like a painting and then audioly, it's just like doors open. It's like, boom.

And then they close. There's something really irresistible about that. Very silly visual. Yeah. Also, I also truly believe the night it aired was like the week before Trump got elected. The cold open was, I don't remember what it was, but it was very somber. And Kate McKinnon was Hillary Clinton. And she was saying it pretty much was like,

We'll see what happens next. And then there was another kind of depressing political sketch. And then out of nowhere, there's weird David. There is something to speak to that about madness, just absolute madness and no real rhyme or reason other than it's just, you know, just so crazy funny. Goopy sketch. A very good thing. Sounds fun at read through is fun. Where do you sit at read through on a side note?

Say that again. Where do you sit at read through? I, I, I sat on the side of the, when, when, when I was there, it was, we were still in the writer's room. I don't think they do it there now. Now they do it in the studio because of COVID. But when we looked at the, when we look at the, like, you know, we would look at the 25th anniversary book. Cause they had the pictures of where, where, where everybody sat and I sat in Farley's seat and I,

Oh, I know exactly where it is. You're kind of facing. I think when you walk in the writer's room, you look straight out those windows. So you walk in, there's a big square or sort of table. Lauren used to be back to the windows. And the guest host. Cracked the window to get like a smidgen of the 30 degree air in that boiling room. And then next to him, if you're looking at the windows, to the left was host.

And then I think I took over Dana because then you round the corner and it was me. I had a good spot there, but I sat behind Dana for a while and then Dana came in. Yeah, but David would sit behind me. But like every week I'd look back and he just scooching his chair up just a little bit closer to me. Yeah. I'd look at it. I go, what? Whisper. I'm next. Yeah. It was funny because I think Farley, where were you? Was that?

You had your back to the doors? Yeah, back to the doors, sort of to the... But anyway, on that backside of the square, facing the window, is where Chris was. Yeah, I was there when I first got there and then moved over to the other side, closer to where the host was for most of it. But that was Keenan's spot next to the host. They just put Keenan there for 20 years. We should say for our knowledge... For 20 years. Keenan, now...

I'm such a fan of his because he just projects joy with every line he says. And he always hits it perfect. He never stumbles. Consummate professional and the same comic timing since he was eight. Yeah, just had it. I feel like he lost Dana. I feel like Kenan lost his...

I mean, at a certain point, you just go, hey, I'm just going to fucking have fun and milk out the show. I know it shouldn't be this scary. There's no reason for it. I'm here. I'm not getting fired. And then it makes it so much more fun. I would say for me personally, I want to ask Bobby that I was the loosest the last sketch I did.

on the last show. And I remember thinking, that's the best I've ever been in terms of my own inner psychological profile. So for you, Bobby, so you were there 2008 to 17, nine years. How do you feel in terms of that fear factor or feeling loose by 17 compared to 08? Did you evolve or were you one of those savants that...

You just didn't get nervous out there. My first episode, I had a space camp. My first episode, I was just like, I got this. This is the bet. And then the second one was when the fear started and where are the cue cards and all that. But my last episode that I did, I got to the studio and just started throwing up. I got violently, violently yelled at. Wow. Why? I'm guessing a mix of like...

nerves and wanting to not wanting to leave and wanting to leave and, and all that stuff. But like, I, I just, I don't know. I just got sick. I just got super, super sick the last day, but it was, it was, it was a wonderful day, but going back now and doing it five years later and like flipping on a switch that hasn't been on for five years, like, yes, it was, it was,

was bonkers. And like, I go like, Oh, that's the best I've ever done on that show. Because I had a, I had a bit of that Keenan where I was just like, I'm just, I'm, I didn't shave. I just had a good time. I could absolutely feel that. I looked at the, a lot of other drunk, uh,

Drunk guy. Anyway, what is his name? Drunk uncle. Drunk uncle. And you were always super loose. But on this past Saturday, it was I thought it was almost the next level thing. Like you kind of didn't need the cue cards or something. But we were so in the pocket. It was fun. I was in a different place. I called him Seth. I called Colin Seth. And everyone was like, that was a great joke. And I was like, that was 100% by accident. Yeah.

You know, also you're focusing on two bits and that's it. And then, you know, you're laser focused on that. You have nothing else to worry about. Exactly. Exactly. And like we were right after we were, I was this, David pumpkins was the first sketch of the night at dress. And then, uh,

uh at on air it was right after update so like i had just enough of a quick oh just enough of a quick change to remind me that like i'm 45 and i haven't done this in five years that's just uh the singularity of snl that you're playing drunk drunk uncle with the beard and everything and then you go and get in a skeleton costume do you have do you have the people changing you do you get a mirror because sometimes i would say can i look at myself for a second for

Well, now it's completely different. Like, now you're doing it in the studio and not... Well, it was Jody and, like, it was people I know and, like, Louis, but also there's a GoPro camera right here getting a time lapse of you doing your physical change. What? So you're, like, at your most vulnerable and sweaty and, like, ripping your clothes off. You're filming it?

And they're filming it with a GoPro and they're like, you're just like, oh boy. And you're just in your underwear at one point for a second. It's you're just bare naked. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. You stand like a scarecrow and then they just rip everything off you. And someone like the writer is yelling their lines at you going, remember at the beginning, it's a little different.

And then at the end, you're going to be red on cards, not green anymore. Tom Hanks is going to slap your butt three times. Tom just added a slap. Yeah. I like when it goes boing.

when you go to be, I love the face at the end and the face at the end where the, the scared people on the ride and the top. When he, the dumber he gets it, the happier I get is because I know he's having a good time. Characters that are happy or fun to watch the stupid, the more dumb I act. Yeah. Yeah. Good Lord. And so he comes in and when you, uh, by the way, when you walk in the room, people at home, uh,

you do dress rehearsal it's exactly like the real show but probably harder it's longer and you don't know if you're on the real show but you're giving it everything they have an audience then

They go in and pick the sketches, which is excruciatingly long because you're waiting, waiting, waiting. And then around 11, you walk in there crammed in the office. They still do it at Lorne's office. They don't now. No. What? I was gutted. I was gutted and angry. They do it at Madison Square. They do it at Madame Tussauds. They...

I was like, they're calling the meeting and I go to head upstairs and they're like, it's in the studio now. And I was like, no way.

No, I don't like it. I'm resisting it. You need the fear, the fear of going into dad's room. A tight room. And you want to sit at the desk and he had the only comfortable spot and everyone else is jammed on the floor. Higher than everybody else. We're all on the ground like animals. Right. And then you walk in and you look at the board and you see if your sketch is moved to the side, meaning it's out because they still have to trim the show. It's probably two hours at dress and then it gets cut down. But you see, but you see pumpkin's,

was first and it went after update did that hurt you did that hurt your course of course it brings back that terrifying feeling of like what did we do wrong and then you're like and then you hear well it's a it's for quick changes and i'm like i don't believe you i don't believe you and it killed too hard is that bad i did for nine years but this time i've had five years to say and now i don't believe you i wonder what that is you think just get off the ground with a fucking well now it's just a viability so at least on my feed it was like

David S. Pumpkins and Drunk Uncle come back to SNL. So it's different. In my day, we didn't have YouTube. We didn't have anything. It was primitive, man. Well, I like that you sound old too, Bobby, because you're saying that read-through room and this and that and things are different. And I'm glad it stuck.

Through Dana, through me, through all the way through you. And then it changes. I feel like I was there for the turnover. Not turnover, but the transition. Like when I first got there, Amy and Daryl were still there. And like Shoemaker and Marcy Klein. I think maybe the last...

like hired. I was under Marcy maybe, or close to, could we ask you about that? Because we had Nick Kroll on and he, I love him. Brilliant. Of course. And it's, there's a lot of whimsy and weirdness to how you get this show or don't get it. But I guess there was a big audition for,

on the sixth floor and Nick was in and he told the story of that. Were you in that audition? I believe so. I think so. I think you would have been. I think that Nick mentioned you. Yeah. Ellie Kemper, like TJ Miller. There was a lot of people there.

Kyle Dunnigan. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We talked to him as well about it. Another brilliant comedian. But he had they both had very strange stories about going out too soon. And just Lauren was the only one there. Nobody's here. And it was just...

tilted, uh, pushed out the first time. Don't go out. It was just a horror show. So what was your experience there? And for a second, just what led you to get there? Was it from second city in Chicago or where did you come from? I,

I was doing, I was in New York. I was doing upright citizens brigade. I, Oh, a UCB guy. Yeah. I, I was, I like that character. No, I just like that character. Um, yeah, I, I was, I was, I was doing UCB and, and kind of met like Amy and Seth and Horatio through, through that, through that, doing that, uh, ASCAP. And then I was doing Horatio Sands is a improv tour. Like he was doing college shows and I was doing that.

And then kind of my sketch group got on the radar of Mike Shoemaker. And I think that was kind of how. And then I auditioned, got called back with a bunch of very, very talented people and was then told, I was like, I think we'll start you in January. Like I met with Lorne and he was like, wow.

Brian, Brian Williams is hosting. That seems like a good one, but he never said you got the job. And I was just like, what's happening. And then two days later, though, you're saying January, but no. And then two days later was the writer's strike. And I heard nothing for nine months. Oh, whoa. Like it just like, like went like, and I didn't get it. I ended up not getting it because during they were,

I guess during the writer's strike, Maya Rudolph had a baby. So they hired Casey Wilson and I didn't get it. Uh, they hired a woman instead. So I, I, um, and Casey's a good friend of mine and I was so excited. Uh, but it was devastating for me. And then wait, wait a minute. You almost got it. And then you went back in line. Okay. And then what happened? Didn't get it. So it was like 14 months in total. And then all of a sudden out of nowhere, I got a call saying like, Hey, do you want to come in again this week? I went in on a Wednesday and,

I did like all new stuff and then, or found out on Monday, went in on Wednesday and like found out on Friday that I got it. And then the next week I was on the show. Oh shit. Like pants productions. My God. I would be like, what? Yeah, it was nuts. After 14 months.

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Yeah, we both did. Hey, bro. But so you were super experienced. Did you do it in college? Like, did you do a lot of theater in college and stuff in high school? I did. I did theater. And then, yeah, I did a lot of plays and musicals and stuff like that. And then right after college, came back to New York, was doing a show.

like a play, uh, saw upright citizens brigade, saw an improv show there and went like, Oh no, I was taking a standup classes at comic strip live. And I was like, I was like, this is, I don't think this is for me. And then, uh, took, saw the improv class and was like, Oh, this is, this is more of a fit. And just for a second, were you the type of kid who put on shows for your parents or siblings and stuff where you go back in like an age? I mean, I definitely,

Did you do little voices? What were you like as a kid performer? I was never good, never good at impressions or accents or anything, but I was, uh,

very, very like, watch me. Look at me. Look at this dumb thing. I get very, very dumb thing. Were you the type when you jump in the pool, you go, watch, watch, watch. And you really weren't doing anything that great. 1 billion percent. And then got out of the pool and did the exact same thing. Well, I know. Watch again. No, I'm going to do, I'm going to put a little tweak on it. Yeah.

So embarrassing. So you, you, how did you deal with the nerves of that audition? 14 months later, did you feel like, Oh fuck it. I probably won't get it again. And you lost it to Maya's baby this time. I did. Well deserved. I think the baby, Maya's baby should definitely be at least a feature player. You know, she's, she's camera ready. She's camera ready. Everyone has a Lauren. Everyone has a Lauren. David, do your Lauren. Uh,

Maya's baby is, it's just, you don't even need to see her, but she's already got hired. I mean, it just, it's just the genes. Bobby? You know, it's that thing when your mother's a superstar. You know, her grandmother sang a song. Once you get into thing, thing is a great word for Lauren. Thing, this covers a lot. Thing of like,

My favorite was always we would always do CNN sketches and on the sketch it said CNN Bumpers so every week was CNN Bumpers

Oh, Lorne reading the... And read through. Yeah, anytime there's a CNN... Oh, that's good. I haven't heard that word. CNN bumper. Yeah, Lorne has his read through voice. What is it called? Oh, stage direction. That's right. He reads stage direction. Stage direction. Goo goo in the honey pot. And then you turn the page.

My favorite Lorne note during in between dress and air meeting very long silence very tense meeting there was about five seconds in silence and then he just went

We have a boom shadow on fart face. It was a personal gift to everyone in the room. We were all like, that was, that was beautiful. It was some sketch called fart face. And that's all he said. Sometimes he does when he does read through, like he'll surprise you. Cause he's so bored by sketch 44. Like if I have the receptionist coming up and they, and Mike shroom taker buries it at the end. And, uh, and then at the end they go, it's like sketch 41 and everyone's nodding off. Then he, he goes, he goes,

The receptionist. He says it like, oh, look at this little nugget. Let's hope it does well. Yeah, he reads the title before you read the sketch. Yeah, it's funny that he gives it a little spin. I did the fart face one. I've said this once before, but it's...

I wrote a sketch called Funny Little Poopyhead. And I had the stage direction. He said Funny Little Poopyhead like 500 times. Funny Little Poopyhead shitched out. Funny Little Poopyhead is sad. Lovitz is turning purple. Anyway, so you do it because you love Lauren and you just do all that. One of the gutting moments, me and Tim Robinson wrote a sketch. I believe it was just a throwback to old SNL where I wanted to just write a jingle.

and all I remember about it was it was a split screen, and we were talking on the phone, and after it pulled back and revealed we were on the toilet, and the thing was just, it's two best friends who talk on the phone while they're taking a dump, and it was terrible. It was absolutely awful, and at the end of the sketch, Lauren, in complete silence, just went, and the Emmy goes to...

That's what Lauren is funny. That's the dry throwaways. It's funny. It's funny. 10 years later in the moment you're, you want to, you want to, you know, if there was a 1% chance it's getting on now, it's zero. Yeah.

It was a blast. It was also good to see him again recently and not be terrified and just go like, hey, thanks. That was fun. We did him for this. We met him and I've seen him for dinner. Oh, it was so good. It's just fun to see him when you're still a little...

you know it's a little odd because he's like dad boss our coach our teacher but just uh but you know you you realize at a certain point he just he wants to hang on have fun and he did say something that was very interesting remember dana when he was leaving he said people say are you going to retire and he goes i would be worried i wouldn't be around funny people like

He says, I'm so lucky I'm around funny people. Are you going to be around funny people? The specific quote he said about funny people to me, this was in New York. He goes, there's only 900 of us on the planet. Have you heard that one? Yeah, I have. I've heard him say it and I've heard you say it. It's so specifically brilliant. But what happens is you just when you see Lorne away from the show because he has all the power and you make fun of the teacher, then you kind of see that he's

he's kind of he's he's very sensitive guy you know and very vulnerable go ahead yeah you you always talk about or like you always tell a story about like when you first met him with paul at his house and stuff and like i've never had that experience like i remember one time they asked me to like he was like you know we're coming back from la if you want to fly with us and i remember being like i ain't getting on that plane like that like it is scary yeah like at the time and like

That that was apparent this time going back like, oh, I should have been so much more at ease with him because he is not as scary in any way. Do you want to have anxiety for six and a half hours? Yeah, exactly. Do you want to question this six hours for the rest of your life? I was on Long Island with Lorne at his house in Amagensa, just the two of us for a weekend.

And we drove around in a sports car and we looked at things and he saw a little shed and he goes, if I lose everything, I could live there. And then, because Lorne has this reputation being erudite, you know, we went to a movie, a matinee. We're just in a theater. Would you like some of my popcorn? You know, it just humanized him. I don't know. But there's only one Lorne.

It's true. It's nuts. But at the same time, in a way, like I remember meeting you, Dana, for the first time when you came and hosted like I got to do a church chat. I was Snooki in a church. Yes, I remember. Yeah, funny. I like that. That was the first moment that truly broke my brain at that show. When you're like you watch something your entire life and then you become a part of it and then you're sitting two feet away from something you used to dress up as is Halloween. Yeah.

And like, it was nuts like that. It's like that, that crazy feeling. I don't know if you remember, David, I met you when we did grownups too. Nope. Not at all. I was in grownups too. And we had lunch together and it's like, it's like, or with Nick Swanson was there and it's like, it's just, it's bonkers. Everybody there was like Lauren to me. I wish I had been like a little bit more. I know. All I remember from that is I wrote my diary. I wish Nick wasn't at that lunch. Yeah.

When you went back this time, Bobby, there are cast members there that were in the bumpkin sketch. I mean, that I think are just two shows in or three shows. Pumpkins. Sorry. Jimmy Pumpkins. I went to community college. I know, me too. David S. Pumpkins, a.k.a. Tom Hanks. So you were there with young cast members, and did they mention –

being fans of yours or asking any questions? What was it like to be around seeing how fresh they are and kind of scared? Most would, they have to be a little, no one was scared. No one was scared. I was super confident. I was amazed at how no one was scared. Oh, really? Uh, yeah. I, I just remember a lot of fear. Uh, they don't. Yeah, me too. Uh,

But then there's Keenan, who's just like, you know, Keenan was there when I got there. I watched him get the show, and he'll be there after I die. And having that was the best. Him and Cecily were the only ones there still from when I was there. But it's bonkers. Having Jack Harlow, the host, who's like 24, he's like, man, I grew up with you on this show. And I'm just like, oh, Jesus. That is the first time. Are you sure? Well, it's the first.

I think I was a kid when I got it pretty much. So now it's like, I even was 31, but like, it just feels crazy to get to that. Like, I can't believe I'm in the, I'm coming back phase of, of my SNL career. It gets more interesting as you go along the ladder. So yeah, I got it. Is it funny, Bobby, when you realize like, uh, if it was the same for you, maybe Dana too, we had, you know, hard lines in our, in our dressing room. So,

Or in our office, not dressing room. But when you get people that you go, oh, this is the most important thing to everyone I know. And then you leave and you go, nobody gives a fuck. That's a wake up call. That's hugely. Yeah. Yeah. It's hugely apparent. When I was on the show, that was my life. The show was my life. Now I got a kid. I got a wife. The pandemic happened. Parents. Just like so many things happened. And you go like, oh, this is.

Right. When you go, did you guys think that the fifth sketch should have been fourth? And they're like, on what? And you're like the show I'm on. They're like, Oh, I didn't, I was on Saturday. I didn't know. And then I felt like when I left and I go, there's, they're still doing the show without me. And then later on, I'm seeing Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler and, and Bill Hader. I go, and they're doing it better than me. And they're good. Yeah. Yeah. Who did you come in with Bobby in 2008? You, you kind of did,

Was it with Bill Hader and you had Amy or who was on the, cause you had some heavy hitters. Yeah. I came into that amazing, that amazingly established cash. It was like Kristen wig, Bill Hader, Sudeikis, Andy Samberg, bread, Armisen. Are you reading this? I am. I went back into it. And all season by the time you came in, they'd been there four or five years or two years or something like that. Yeah.

I was the first cast member to come in in a couple years and also the only one my season. John Mulaney came in as a writer as well. We shared an office. Was Fred Armisen mean? Was Fred Armisen kind of mean?

The meanest famously famous asshole, Fred. No, the nicest guy in the world. That's why I was nervous. Like I was nervous. I knew Dana a little bit. I was still nervous around him because in his, in the pocket at SNL and Dennis, I knew still weird. Cause once you're in there, it's a big fucking deal. And then going up and asking questions or saying, do you want to write something with me? Or, uh,

It's just weird to go up to Kristen Wiig and she's royalty there. Yeah, it was that. The first year was like everyone was really nice and the second year was when I kind of realized like, oh, I think no one really wants to hang out and talk about sketches. It was like that was when you started to realize. You're kind of on your own. Yeah, it took me a while to figure that out. Did you partner up with somebody or get some chemistry with a writer or another cast member? Obviously you and Mickey Day with...

David S. Pumpkins. Yeah, a bunch. I shared an office with John Mulaney. I had known him. He was wonderful. He's great. Brian Tucker and Colin Jost were a writer at that time, and we wrote a bunch together. Great writer. Once Cecily came along, we did a bunch of sketches together. Yeah.

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You know, it's interesting that like Phil, obviously the shinier objects like Dana and Dana, let me finish. Um, you heard so much. No, that's, that's a compliment because Dana, but you got Phil, if you're going to put them in your sketch, you just stop worrying because he will get a everything out of it and more. And so those are unsung heroes that take longer to figure out how good they are. Uh, I mean, people in the business get it, but

It takes the audience, you know, if they don't jump out in a big sketch, that's like, like Lorraine Newman, like, you know, Chris Parnell, like those guys. Yeah. Just like the excessively to me is just like essential. She's a, she's yeah. It's just that we learned being standups to, uh, just working with other people and loving it when you're killing together, like Phil and Jan on church chat or Phil as Ed McMahon, that partnering with people, Mike Myers and Kevin Dillon was so much fun. And,

coming from stand up where it's kill or be killed. It's just you against the world. Could I, could I fan out for a minute? Cause I did a deep dive on Bobby Moynihan. Yeah.

Because you see your best of back to back and you realize that you're kind of like Phil, you can play anything, but then sometimes you play stuff that's like supernatural, like out there. It really rocked me. The kitty cat guy, the commitment of that character. Oh, I saw that one. Can you just explain that sketch? And I thought, this isn't going to work.

You know, and then it just went into a whole other. I mean, you anyway, explain how that character came about. The kitty cat, like a lot of my sketches on like right address. I went like, this isn't going to work. And it just ends up relying on like weird performance. It was all you. That was all set up for you. Everyone else was straight and you just kept escalating it and winding down into it. This cute little boy on a spaceship, uh,

Who won't won't do anything they ask him to do, except he's just in love with his kitty cat. I mean, it's so stupid. I was on a camping trip and like a friend of a friend brought a friend. And that guy was a stranger. Yes, pretty much was just being silent and took a couple of beers and went in a tent and then came out much, much later in the night and sat down and like kind of looked like he was crying. And we were like, hey, man, are you OK? And he just went, I miss my little kitty cat.

And, and we were like, what? And then we, I proceeded to write a, tell somebody at work about that. And they were like, let's put them in a spaceship where people can't get away from him. Yeah. Also, there's another layer of,

Just to make sure I interrupt you, a layer of the people talking, they're kind of funny talking like the movie Alien or that same kind of thing. Yeah, they're so serious. So that's a layer of comedy there. Yeah. And I go, it's going to be about that. And then it sort of switches. And the best ones are like, you don't really predict what's going on. Would it be putting you on the spot, Bobby, to move toward the mic and just do a little bit of that character so the audience knows what, because it was sort of a little boy, but it was something different.

I just would get, I would, I would just try and be the creepiest, like weird, adorable man or a boy where I would just go, I miss my little kitty cat. You're squeezing your diaphragm, which is what the guy sounded like. Yeah. It was bizarre. I also wanted to point out, uh, for people who are drunk uncle fans, uh,

The non sequitur aspect of it is incredible. It, the guy hates progress. You're it's, it kind of is sneakily, it's sneakily, slightly edgy with the immigrant stuff and the stuff that guy can say in his own way. So it's sneakily a little more than just a drunk guy. It's actually got some weight to it a little bit. It was, it was weird. Cause it's like,

We haven't done it in five years. It's the first time. The last time I did it was with Trump. Like, you know, like, like, oh, with the actual Trump went when he was there. And we said, like, a bunch of terrible stuff about how racist he was. Like, I was like, he's just like me, very racist and stupid. And like, he came over to me and shook my hand. Like, thank you for saying such nice things about. And I was like, I don't think you got.

what happened there. Like the whole point of drunk uncle was like, the stuff I'm saying is abhorrent. Right. Exactly. I always know when people come up and they're like, I love drunk uncle, man, I think just like him. And I'm like, Oh no. But, uh, so it was hard to come like to kind of reconcile that after black lives matter and come back and go like, is this funny to do anymore? Like,

the lovable race in five years it changes everything completely and uh my pitch was like maybe he's a little woke after the pandemic and they were just like nobody wants to hear woke drunk uncle i was like i get it oh yeah it's just finding that line of like i know what i'm saying is very stupid and i'm making fun of that and i hope you understand you know it's funny when the guys like that there you could do where he is trying to be woke and everything comes out so wrong

we got like a couple of those into this one where he just said like, I know now that black Adams matter, like, like he's trying, he's trying. Yeah. That's, that is a lot of, there's a lot of huggers. There's a lot of, uh, people I know that still, and then they get mad if they're corrected at all. They're like, Oh, okay. So no, no ass grabbing, but what if they like it? You're like, well, we did a quick poll and, uh, so,

So how many times do you do the McDonald's firing people? Was that just a one-off with Cecily? Oh, we did it a couple times. I think we did it like three or four times, maybe two or three times. Something like that. That one also must have been really fun to perform where you are two employees at McDonald's, you think you're getting fired, and then you just dissect all the other employees and just shit all over them, going back and forth. That was just me and Cecily trying the tactic of like, this is like, you know how like...

at snl there's like character parade sketch or the impression parade sketch or like you write like if i write a a game show this week it might help to get on so like we were just like let's write a sketch with every cast member in it where we just get to go through every cast member and tear them apart like trying to be funny and that was literally it was just like what if we wrote something that had every cast member yeah that's when they walk around dana like marcy or shoemaker yeah

you know, maybe you could put Ellen in that or well, the little edge to it was like Taron, Taron Killian. He had, he had such a murderer. He had such a great, cause they would just go to close up with no lines. Like Sudeikis had a funny angle and they got laughs too. So that was, you know,

extremely funny when in doubt when in doubt cut to keenan making a face always cast pieces are always a score and for people listening like when you're writing if the the only little tricks there are there aren't many but big cast is good give the what what does the host doesn't do anything he's a prop

Like, you know, if you write a funny character and then like I told Dana when I've told people I wrote one when David Bowie was there, the receptionist, and then he comes in and blah, blah. But he wanted he liked it. But then he said, I want to be the receptionist. I was like, oh, wait a second. But that's understandable because you're the funny one and you're and it is a prop and you don't really think like that because you're so focused on. I just got to get a character that makes sense and it's funny and you finally get that.

And cast is a little better at that. You know, had you done it before or was that the first time I had not done it? And I was going to say, you want that to happen three times in. Yeah. If that happens, then there's a way to explain it a little bit. Springsteen wanted to do church lady. He was a musical guest and I was early on and I was like, Bruce, no, I'm kidding. Okay.

I was about to say, Jesus. How'd you go on? I was like, I believe it. I believe it completely. Hey, I think the lady is someone who can say things that other people can't say. I think of you more as a feature player. I think this, it might be too many lines for you. And I don't want to put that much on you.

Did you have, because Meeting Springsteen was a thrill and he walked on the 8-H and the Wayne's World set was there and he's like, so that's what it looks like. You know, stuff like that. Did you have stuff like that where you're meeting musicians and movie stars and it's just fun. I mean, constantly. I mean, like, I think, I mean, like, I was, I was a super fan of the show when I, when I got it. Like, I don't like, I don't know, you know.

I grew up on it for many, many generations like you guys, but like when you came and hosted for church lady, like that was nuts. That was the first time where it was like playing and where you really realize like playing in that playground of like, you just get to jump into these worlds that you've loved for so long. Yeah.

Yeah. You see the church chat set and then you go sit in it. And then you're like, I'm in this sketch. Snooki is a very big character for you. I mean, you crushed with that. She had, she had all this Tanner on and this blue dress and the crazy hair. That was like the first thing that hit for me was Snooki where like the first real, the real first thing. Was it update? I think I saw you do update. And I was like, Oh my God. Cause I think hater comes into the situation and you're like, have to explain who it is. And I'm like, Oh, is this really, really early on? Cause I, I,

I was flipping through the channels and just saw some girl get punched in the face. And I was like, what is this? And, and watched it. And it was like that week. And then like the week after I did, it was like when Snooki, like people were like talking about her. Yeah. And when I, and then I, and then that year I did the MTV movie awards dressed as her with her. And she came over to me and was like, nobody knew who I was. And then you did me on SNL. And now I make 30 grand for personal appearances. Yeah.

That's a lot. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a lot. I can open for her. Yeah, yeah. So you do Snooki, Snooki on...

On a update. And that's a nice moment. Is that early for you also? Seems a while ago. Somewhat. I had like a couple, like my fourth episode, like I was like of this Beyonce sketch with single ladies that did really well. And like that, that kind of like started and then Snooki. Yeah. And then like, I got, I think I got a little more confident at update because of Snooki and then like drunk uncles started happening. And then like most of, most of my stuff,

that people remember got on to update. Cause that's, I think that's where I was. It's a score. And if they, and if they would score sketches and, Oh yeah, I saw Anthony Crispino was, you know, Anthony Crispino just as, so that was a very, what give us that accent a little bit. It was really specific. What, what was it from? It was just my, my dad would always look around when he would tell you something like there was a spy there. And I just always thought that was funny. And,

uh the idea of just not giving any information but uh i would like everything just got progressively higher and more ridiculous as i as i lie dana did you see that one where he has ryan gosling with him because um first of all nothing better on update you got a character it works and if you want to jack it up bring out the host that was also yeah sorry and he's funny and he looks funny and then he is funny

uh that was the first time where the host like at the host meeting they were like this is ryan gosling and he everyone clapped and he was like i want to do an anthony crispino and i like was like oh wow that is the chill that was the first time that happened and only time probably for me and it was it was it was a lot of fun he was great he's a stud yeah dana used to get that for wayne's world or you know i can't i can't imagine

And then Lorne would go, Dana? Mike? What do you think? We're thinking of a Wayne's World maybe this week with Madonna and Aerosmith. Do you think that'll get numbers? Could be. I don't know. Well, Steven Tyler has a certain sort of chop that we could use. It's that thing of like Bobby's here, but he's not here. What? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Now, Bobby, when you do the good nights, I used to have to count those as a sketch, unfortunately, because David would get on my shoulders at the good nights and I would carry him around the stage on my shoulders. Remember that, David? Yeah, I got it. When people announce me, I like to try and throw that in. Like, you know him from SNL. You know his characters from SNL. Good drunk uncle, the good nights.

I'd like to throw that in there. They knew me from the Good Nights, and then I'd grab Farley, and I'd go, you didn't earn it this week. Go back, go back. Who had a nose for the lens on your cast, Bobby? A nose for the lens on the Good Nights. Who sneakily always ended up front? Oh, that's the host hugger. I love that. I love that term. Yeah. I feel like we had a couple. You don't have to give any names to me.

That's funny. I was the opposite to a fault where I was just like, thank you for being here. Sorry I was in your way and didn't know better. I think I should have acted more like a confidence. My tactic was like football. I would go back around, do my route. I'd go in the back, wait, and then I go right down the middle, get between Farley and David, and then boom, FaceTime.

It was a boom. Definitive route that I did every time. I always stood on one side and said hi to my mom. I did it for nine years. That was it. I mean, mouth did the same thing. I just like, that was just, that's cute. That's an angle too. I like that. Um, for the latest, the worst is if you go up to hug the host and they turn and hug Mike Myers or someone, and then you look away and you go, that's when I'm on camera. When I got iced, uh,

Yeah, your hands are up in the hug position, but they turned and you're just holding it there for a second. It's very risky. My favorite goodnight's moment, and it was caught on camera, was being there and

Having John McCain, I caught eyes with John McCain like through the crowd. And for some reason he got real excited and like beeline, like pushing through Keenan Pete Davidson and people just to get through gets to me and throws his arm around me and goes always a pleasure ratio.

Oh, yes. It was amazing. My friends. My friends. Joe Cold. I need friends. Listen, McCain, this is not how it works here, motherfucker. You do Gary Shanley to get to John McCain. Oh, is that John McCain? What is it? Gary Shanley and what? My friends. Friends. That's all I remember. I don't do them anymore. But whatever. Robbie, when you were up there, did I see a clip of maybe it was you with McCartney?

Oh, yeah. On Good Nights. They were singing or something? Was it a Christmas show or something? Yeah, that was like absolutely... And Springsteen. Yeah, it was like they were...

Paul McCartney was there, but Bruce Springsteen was the musical guest. It was the Christmas show, and Tina and Amy were hosting. And at Dress... Good God. They were like, yeah. And at Dress, they pulled everybody off because Bruce was going to do Santa Claus is Coming to Town at the end of the show. And so everyone kind of left the stage and went...

Like, into the tunnel, almost. Yeah. And then on air, for some reason, he just pulled Amy and Tina up, and then he was like, come on, guys. So everyone jumped on stage for that, and it was...

You better not cry. You better not pout. Anyway, love Springsteen. I can't do it. Yeah, and then McCartney there too. I mean, she's too. I had a moment with McCartney just during a rehearsal where he popped out of the hose. They have the dressing rooms over on the side near the page desk, and he just popped.

popped out with a with a pizza box in his hand and went does anybody want pizza and me and jen i don't do clearly don't do a poll and uh me and jenna rossitano the stage manager just went inside and had a slice of pizza with him and talked about new york pizza and it was like those moments where you just go like yeah this place is uh i think he tries to be normal and he and he would rather just sometimes just drop it just like be normal especially around there you just you're around funny people and

talented people. If you want to sound like him, Bobby, just everything is a question. So we'd be like, would you like some pizza? Which is also a question. Always goes up. Yeah. Would you like some pizza? Some pizza? Nine years on SNL can't do an impression to save my life. I just played a lot of loud Italians. Hey! You do. I have this tailor, Bobby, and he...

Every time, I don't even know why I go to him, because every time I go, I just want these pants thin. I go, what? He goes, you don't want them thin. It looks weird. It went all the way to the ground. Cover your shoes. They're fighting you. I go, cover my shoes. And then he goes, they're too skinny. I go, I look at him, his pants are like each two feet wide. And I go, why am I looking at you? Why don't I go to someone that looks good in their clothes? You don't want a double break, they tell me. You don't want a double break. Right.

Right. He goes, this should be dragging. I know that on the sea shoes. Everything I do, I want to get the get the sleeves. No, he fights me on everything. Disappointed. That's a character you would do if you're on SNL. That would be a potential sketch with the host. Yeah, 100 percent. Especially if it was Jon Hamm or someone, you know, studly guy.

I got my when I got my suit for my wedding, the guy who fitted me for my suit, his name was Lionel. He had an L on his on everything. Everything was monogrammed. And he kept telling me he kept he just kept going. Don't waste my time. OK, don't waste my time. And I was like, this guy's an SNL character. I'm going to do it this week.

I wrote the sketch in five minutes. I was like, this is going to crush. This is my target lady. This is my, my, you know, this is my bye-bye. And, uh, and, uh, went go in and it just tanks by page two. Oh, and then I'm like, Oh God, I got that weird drunk uncle thing in the second half. Hopefully that'll work. So what, how did you say the catchphrase? What was the catchphrase again? And how did you say it? Uh,

I was, it was just, he was just like, I hate everything you're wearing. Stop wasting my time. Stop wasting my time. That's a good catchphrase. Yeah. Yeah. That was it. He was just very confident and mean. I've seen, what about Dana when someone does a catchphrase and then, and it bombs by page two and they have eight more pages. You know what was funny though? It was like, I came in at a time where like,

We were still kind of doing those sketches like old SNL sketches. Now they're called old where it was like a theme song and then a crazy character like Gilly was like kind of the last one we did because. Yeah, it's a funny when I first got there the first year. I remember Andy Sandberg being like, hey, that video we did, they're going to put it on this thing called YouTube. And I was like, what is that? And he was like, it's this website that it's just going to have videos. He's like.

And I was just like, well, good luck, man. That sounds terrible. Like that'll never work. And that'll never work. And then like by my fourth or fifth episode was the first time we were in HD. And then like you couldn't do reoccurring characters anymore because they would put them on YouTube and like people could see them immediately.

and like it was such a huge difference now quicker i mean yeah like we would wait to see another wayne's world or we would wait to see it because we had to and then like like those kind of characters which is something that like i feel like i got the show for was these weird characters you like the juice yeah like all of a sudden that was slowly starting to go away and i was like oh well i guess i gotta i guess that's how many catchphrases i just the

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So this is a sketch that I thought was so funny, supernaturally funny, that you did with The Rock. Oh, I saw this one, yeah. World wrestling promo shoot. Very personal wrestling. You're the straight man in a sense, but you play it so real off of The Rock. You knew that was crushing when it...

I mean, it was just that that was one of those gifts where like the rock, it was the rocks idea. Oh, wow. He was like, good. He was like, he was like, yeah, when we did these promos, I would always do this bit where I would get really, really personal. And like, and it was his idea. And then, um,

they pitched it to Rob Klein and Rob Klein wrote it. And it's just, it was one of those gifts of just like, yeah, all I got to do is stand here and get offended and have like, it was, oh, that's one of my favorite. Can't not kill. That was one of those like, yeah, like from, from table to, from table to air. It wasn't very, it wasn't,

Yeah. Farm to table, table to farm. It was very easy in the sense of like, there wasn't a lot of panic all week of like, are we getting this right? Like, it was just like, no, we just, I, I get offended by the terrible things he said. And some, some sketches like that don't really even change.

It didn't a lot. It didn't. And like, there's little things about it. Like Taryn, even Taryn Killam. Oh, that's right. He was good. Like, yeah, just keeps looking at his phone the whole time. And then whenever he has to be the announcer, he just got like, yeah, there's just little things about it. That was well for the people at home. No one's at home for the people driving. Um, yeah, it's really like, uh,

The Rock is giving a, uh, is, is tells them, uh, you know, before they do an interview. Well, they, they, they, they're beating up on each other verbally and Bobby does a normal thing. I'll kill you in the ring and all that. But he says, you know, say whatever you want, say whatever you want. Yeah. And then he says, say whatever you want, really get after me. And then what does the Rock say, Bobby? Yeah.

that I have herpes and that he's been catfishing me with a picture of my own daughter. Yeah. Just terrible. Yeah. Just horrible, awful things. But it's, he was so good in it. Cause it's in his world. Like he knows it so well. Like he's funny when you go, that was a little rough. Just say something about in the ring during the fight. He goes, Oh God, I got it. Then he goes, this guy's going to get the ring and I'm scared. He's going to give me his herpes in the ring. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

It's funny because you stay in character until they break. They always go, oh, cut. And then he goes, how was that? And you go, well, I didn't like it. It was horrible. It really hurt my feelings. Yeah, but you don't do it during when you're filming. But you played it so well. I mean, that's not easy to be the so-called straight man and get gigantic laughs from the straight man. What about that catchphrase film you guys did made me laugh so hard? You played Slappy Pappy.

Yeah, that was just the dumbest thing in the world. I'm a huge fan of Sinbad, and I think he's fantastic. And then I found this guy, Shucky Ducky. Have you ever heard of Shucky Ducky? Sure. I'll say yes. It sounds funny already. He was a stand-up comic, and he would tell jokes like,

I'm supposed to pay my wife alimony, but I don't. She says, you're a deadbeat. And I said, no, I'm just patient. Shucky ducky, quack, quack. And then he would just say, shucky ducky, quack, quack. Oh, that's great. At the end of every joke. And it really made me laugh. It's funnier than the joke. So funny. I got one, a redneck comedian. Oh, yeah.

You ever fart so loud, dog too stayed away, go, what that? Come and get some. That was full character. By the way, it doesn't even correlate really when you go, come and get some. It doesn't relate, but come and get some. It doesn't need to. Come and get some. Here's mine. David has a catchphrase. Oh, yeah. How do I do it? Let me see.

I called my wife the other day and her boyfriend answered, rack him. Yeah, that's it. Rack him. I think I need a real joke first. No, rack him's funny. I mean, we almost called the podcast rack him. Okay, I got one. All right. It's a child molester joke, but we'll change it. So this child molester goes in the woods with this five-year-old kid and the kid goes, mister, I'm scared. He goes, you're scared after this. I got to walk out of here by myself. Rack him.

Crack them. That's right. That's like a joke, but it's a rude one. We'll strike it. I asked my mama to wash my tighty-whities. She said, okay. I said, how'd it go? She said, great. I haven't seen skidmots like this since the Daytona 500. Come and get some. Since I dated Big Daddy Don Garlits. Come and get some.

Come and get it, Sam. I married my sister only because mama turned me down. Come and get it, Sam. It's making up jokes. These all would have worked. That's pretty much what it was. It was just doing this in a writer's room for hours and then just coming up with different comics and what their catchphrases were. And the escalation at the end with the bullhorn or what was it? The brah brah with...

I believe he was like Pete Airhorn Schultz and he just didn't tell you just came out. All right. So that was that was the perfect button for that. So what are you doing these days before we wrap up? I have a question before we wrap up, too. But how's your head? How's your head space? It seems like you're just working like crazy.

I mean, you're just, we did sugar life of pets together. One and two. Yeah. We were, we were there for three soon. Um, yeah, it was just on Mr. Mayor, which David, you were fantastic. Mr. Mayor. I was on Mr. Mayor. Yeah, I think so. You definitely were. That's Tina's right? Yeah. Yeah. Um,

Yeah, doing good. I wrote a children's book. It's called Not All Sheep Are Boring. Not All Sheep Are Boring? That's right. What age group is it for? If you count sheep to fall asleep because some of them are extremely boring. That's why. I like that. Yeah, that's it.

What was it? Yeah, doing a lot of writing. Derek, Derek, comedy sketches. That was a part of your resume I saw. Yeah, one of the first things I did, Donald Glover, all those guys. Yeah, super talent. Here's my last question for Bobby Dana. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding in my car. It's really wispy. The final question. It's so wispy. This is just one I wrote down. Does your years...

Do they send a car to take you to work every day or even take you to the show? Uh, when I first got there, no. Um, and then not even show day.

No, but then on show day, we got cars. That was always the case. And we had limos at first, and then that stopped. Oh, really? After the after party. Well, no, but then we just got regular cars, like the actual limousines themselves. Oh, like skinny long limousines. Ridiculously, like 1980s. Yeah.

cocaine limousines and like, yeah. And we, we like that ended like after the first year or two there, but never, never cars to like, or sometimes for rehearsal towards the end, because like we would, they would call you up and be like, it's two o'clock in the morning. You're coming to Brooklyn to do a pre-tape. Like it was cause like it was mostly pre-tapes by the time I left. Like we would be out of the studio for Thursday, Friday and Saturday just doing. Wow. That's weird.

Did you ever have a show where everything came together like it was your best show ever and you walked into the party just with a little different physicality? Yeah, that's right. I'm here. Moynihan in the house. Did you have a show where you kind of went, wow, that was my best show? You hit on like four different things.

probably early on and it wasn't, you know what I mean? Like I thought it was, and it was just like, I didn't go home crying that night, but like, I'll be honest, like the, the, maybe this last one that this last one was the first time I left that building going like, that was a blast. And then, and then that was it. You go bring me to the host table. And then cry yourself to sleep 45 minutes later. No one likes me.

Well, it was nice to go like, nope, I'm just going to the hotel. I'm going to sleep. I got to be at my daughter's soccer game in six hours. It was just nice to move on and just go. That was a fun to see those people and move on. Wow. So you're just in that whole world being a dad. That's a whole other podcast, but she's doing soccer already. How old is she? Two? Yeah, five. Kindergarten. Kindergarten. Yeah. Here's my last thing. It's a character based on my friend. Whenever you say anything to him,

You go, oh, so you got that soccer game, then you're going to go to lunch. He goes, yep, just being a dad. And he keeps saying it and I go, shut up. He says it like it's, like he's, I get that he's proud of it, but it can't cover everything.

Like, it always comes back to that. Like, he's such a hero. It's a good blanket excuse. That's another character. Proud Daddy. Like, he works Dad into everything. You know, how's... Hey, when are you going to work? Well, as a dad, I'll probably get there around 10. Want to have lunch? Well, dads can't have lunch. They got to call their family. Yeah. There you go, David. You got two characters from this podcast. Yeah. That real pretentious wind-up, too. That, well, you know...

Just being a dad. Yeah. That explains it all. It's a blanket statement. And then they're kind of jealous of single people just wandering around the world. Must be nice. Must be nice. Oh, my God. That must be nice. What's it like to take a nap? Yeah. What's it like to do what you want to do when you want to do it? Must be nice. The must be nice guy. What's it like to eat alone? Hey, do people treat you with respect?

Oh, you don't have any poop on your clothes. Must be nice. Must be nice. The must be nice guy. Thanks, buddy. It's been a pleasure. So much fun watching you all these years and on SNL recently. And so we hope to see you around campus. Yep. Thank you. Such a pleasure to do this. It's like listening to, for SNL cast members, it's like an hour long free therapy every week.

We're all soldiers in that battle in a way, metaphorically speaking. So we're okay, alum. It's nice to be amongst legends. Thank you. I love you guys. Peace out. Love you too, buddy. This has been a podcast presentation of Cadence 13. Please listen, then rate, review, and follow all episodes. Available now for free wherever you get your podcasts. No joke, folks.

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